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From all I have seen, schools like Basis are bending over backward to keep up their end of the bargain toward providing a high-quality education.  They have tutoring sessions and all kinds of other extra resources available to the struggling kids.  The more important and more-ignored challenge that should be focused on is for the students, parents and the community to keep up their end of the bargain.  If the struggling kids can't keep up it will more likely be because their families won't back them up, won't support them toward getting the extra tutoring and help to catch up, then that is not the fault of Basis.[/quote]

Frankly, this sounds like it came from a starry-eyed parent (BASIS will get my kid to Harvard)  or the BASIS PR dept (We gotta get a bunch of parents to believe this to populate the school, but if it doesn't work it's because of inadequate parents)

This is a fascinating shift from the DCPS philosophy in which the teachers count for everything and the parents for nothing.  Left out of the equation are the kids, which apparently are putty in the hands of either their parents or their teachers, depending on which school they attend.

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